A woman told police that her boyfriend, Rickey Robinette, began arguing with her and throwing things at her. She said that he then grabbed a pistol and fired several times at her, but she and her 16-year-old son were able to escape uninjured.

Julian said he never felt like a girl: In kindergarten, he insisted he was a boy. No one thought much of his distaste for dresses when he was a child, chalking it up to a tomboy phase he would eventually outgrow.

It took Ted Cruz three months to raise $10 million for his campaign for president, a sprint of $1,000-per-plate dinners, hundreds of handshakes and emails asking supporters to chip in a few bucks. One check, from one donor, topped those results.